News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-12-08
CAM BRIDGE.

. Irving Edwards has finished work al
Mrs. n. w. Turner's.
Sec notice of annual collecting trip in
another column EDS.
Anna Leach will work at John Wood
rufEs in Underhill this winter.
Rev. G. Graves conducted an Episcopal
service at Fairfax last Sunday.
Fannie Scott has been visiting her sis
ter, Mrs. Clinton Brown, of Underhill.
Several days previous to the thaw of
Saturday the boys had lively times play
ing polo on the frozen pond.
Milford Smith has purchased L. ST.
mOnd's entire stock of dry goods, and
will continue the business hereafter.
George Scott. of Fletcher, returned to
his work here last week, as his son Cliff
ton, who has been very i'll with diphthe-
ria, is now recovering.
Mrs. L. J. Leach is now with Mrs.
Paul Jones, learning the S. L. Taylor
system of cutting and fitting garments
preparatory to practioing the trade.
About 20 young people gathered at w.
S. Woodruff's last Wednesday and en-
joyed social evening under the auspic-
es of the Ladies' Aid Society; lunch was
served.
Otis Sherman is doing a great deal of
work with the apparatus for boring
pump-logs and has a number of engage
ments ahead. He is being helped by
| Willis Gray.
| 1t is generally understood that III. L.
Story aud family think seriously OF go
ing to California in the spring, and joining
B. j. Story at Binghamton, where Mrs.
StOry's brother, Josh Brown, is the pro-
prietor of large rancho.
The house and barn owned by Peter
Donelly burned about o'clock Sunday
morning. Tue inmates escaped unframed
but the household goods were destroyed.
The horses. cattle and wagons were TAX
ell from the barns. 1t has been estiuat-
ed that the loss on poultry was $50.
At the missionary meeting Sunday
evening Mrs. j. E. Bowen gave an inter
esting account of the work done through
the efforts of the Home Missionary So
ciety among the Indians, Negroes and
Mormons reference also being made to
work in our large cities. Owing to the
unpleasant weather the attendance was
small.
MRS. CLARA d. GATES.
Died at her residence in Cambridge Vt Nov.
y 1887, after an illness of nearly two years and
half, Clara Dyer Gates, i'll the eighty second year
Mrs. Gates was no ordinary woman She was
born at Rutland, VT, April 20, 1SO6, daughter
of Edward and Sarah Bowman Dyer. She was
married January 6, 1881, to Gardner Gates of
Rutland, and removed to Cambridge in the
spring OF 1889, settling on one of the finest farms
on the Lamoille river, just below Cambridge
Boro. Here three sons were born, Irving Gard
ner, Edward Dyer, and Clarence Dyer Gates.
| Mr.. Gates was one of the leading and best
| known men in that section of the state, and for
| those days amaSSed large fortune. He died in
1s47, leaving large estate for his widow to man.
| age. Mrs: Gates was woman of great ability
| and sagacity, and was equal to the emergency in
| which she found herself placed at her husbands
death. She was eminently a business woman
| and it is doubtful if there were many men in the
| Lamoille valley her superiOrs. The writer knew
| her and her family WELL in his younger DAYS and
cherished the fondest recolectfons. He remem-
bers her good ADVICE and encouraging words on
| more occasions than one, Notwithstanding the
great business burden she carried, she was emf
nently a lady, not masculine but the finest type
| of woman. With noble heart and kindly dis
position. her home was paradise on earth. She
| was mother in the grandest conception of the
| term, strong, gentle, and beautiful model
| woman. She lipedi for her home and her
children and the world outside had few attrac-
tions for her. But the once prominent family is
wasting away. Her eldest son, Irving, died west
| i'll 1871; her SECOND son, Edward. died in his
youth and her youngest son, Col. Clarence D.
| Gates, alone remains, But one brother of the
four OF her fathers family survives, Hon. Horace
III. Dyer of Rutland, and only one sister of the
| five, Mrs. Harriet Huett of Salisbury Mrs
| Gates was laid away to rest with her departed
kindred, Friday afternoon, Nov. &C. in the family
| cemetery in Cambridge. The funeral services
were held at her late residence, Rev. Gemont
| Graves OF Burlington officiating, assisted by
ReyS E. WheelOck and J. Z. Bowen of Cam
bridge. A good woman is gone.-IMeSSenger.